Archive for September, 2009

Have you ever wondered about why you rarely actually hear anything very negative for you personally online instead being exposed to all the great comments and encouragements - whatever the idea you ask for opinion on is? I myself have seen examples of this particular trend everywhere online and since the vast majority of comments [...]

Yahoo is one of the companies that is incredibly late in the Russian market: it has not paid any attention to it for years now and I have not seen any signs of this situation actually changing any time soon. The company does not have any office in Russia, many of its products do not [...]

I have already mentioned here that recession has actually turned to be a positive factor of growth for the internet industry in Russia with advertising budgets definitely migrating online more than we could hope for and with people using internet more than we expected, especially to find new jobs for those who were left unemployed [...]

Russian Aeroflot is the oldest of the existing Russian airlines (it was the only air operator in the Soviet era) and it is rarely willing to innovate but right now it seems to be open to innovation - open enough to become the first Russian air carrier to offer internet and mobile communications on board [...]

Russian information agency RIA Novosti (RIAN) is well known here in Russia as one of the major fighters against copyright infringement as they try to support their own positions (and revenues) online in competition with those online resources that basically do nothing but republish RIAN’s own materials. In fact, I have a feeling that they [...]

When I watch various discussions online regarding network neutrality and how bad it feels to have any limits introduced to unlimited plans at all, I sometimes can’t help but sigh enviously because frequently this seems to be the only thing I myself could even dream about - given the ridiculous prices we pay here in [...]

The problem with the online industry is that there are virtually no certain and time-proved rules for anything that you can do if you do your business online - simply because the industry has not had enough time to mature. And even if there are dedicated books published and experts teaching how to launch startups [...]

Those endless Digg killers from a few years ago made me yawn instantly because no matter how many niche clones of Digg web developers from around the world bothered to launch, the huge crowd was securely settled on Digg and had no visible desire to move elsewhere - even if those other places were as [...]

Yesterday Yandex made a move that was quite predictable given the fact that the leading Russian search engine began copying various Google products quite a while ago and has enough power to promote such products in Russia given its leading position in the online market of the country. The latest addition to its range of [...]